Clocks changing a week earlier?

[Jane Doe]

I am not sure where to post this, so hope it is OK here

Does anyone know why the clocks are going back a week earlier this year. I thought it was the the last saturday in October whioch would be the 31st but the clocks will change on the 24th.

Or am I wrong?

 

[truthseeker]

Its usually the bank holiday weekend - hence the 24th this year.

 

[Jane Doe]

Oh i see, OK thanks

 

[Celtwytch]

The clocks go back in the early hours of the last Sunday, not Saturday, in October (at 2 am, they go back to 1am). Most of the time this coincides with the Bank Holiday weekend.